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The Jane Burbank Fellowship
Made possible by the generous gift of the distinguished Russian historian Jane Burbank’67, this fellowship helps fund, fully or partially, 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ students' summer study of Russian and other languages of the former USSR. More information about the fellowship.
Funded Research Projects
Misha Lerner ’21
Ruby-Lankford grant for faculty-student collaborative research (Associate Prof. Grinberg, principle investigator)
Summer 2021
Project: “From Harlem to Moscow and from Moscow to New York: Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Ilf and Petrov and the Ties Between African American and Soviet Cultures”
Isabelle Sinclair ’22
Ruby-Lankford grant for faculty-student collaborative research (Assistant Prof. Caffee, principle investigator)
Summer 2021
Project: A Poet’s Perspective on a Painter’s Art: Marina Tsvetaeva’s Essay, "Natalia Goncharova: Life and Art," Translation and Commentary
Alex Fallow ’21
Ruby-Lankford grant for faculty-student collaborative research (Prof. Bershtein, principle investigator)
Summer 2019.
Project: Sergei Eisenstein’s “A “Shift” to the Biological Level”: Translation and Commentary.
Alex Fallow ’21
Opportunity Grant
October 2019
Project: Participating in and presenting at the first conference of the Eisenstein International Network in Paris, France.
Nick Joseph ’22
Russian department’s travel grant
Summer 2019
Project: Internship as a Summer Camp Counselor in Vladivostok, Russia
Fiona Rockwell ’18
Russian department’s research grant
Winter 2018
Project: Research in Postwar Russian Periodicals, the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Brandon Marrow ’18
Ruby-Lankford grant for faculty-student collaborative research (Prof. Bershtein, principle investigator)
Summer 2017
Project: Constructing “Realms of Memory”: Russian Historical Film under Putin
Brandon Marrow '18
Russian Department Research Grant
Winter 2018
Project: Research at Russian State Archive for Literature and the Arts (РГАЛИ) for Thesis on Olga Bergolts
Fiona Battistoni
Russian Department Research Grant
2020
Project: Presentation of research on Soviet conceptualizations of race at UC undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies.
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